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date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Organs: Donors
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2017 to Question 1450, what the consent and authorisation rate was in (a) England, (b) Wales, (c) Scotland and (d) Northern Ireland in the 2016-17 financial year.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	4423
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The information is set out in the table below. Further information can be found in NHS Blood and Transplant’s Annual Activity Report for 2016/17, which was published on 11 July:</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.odt.nhs.uk/statistics-and-reports/annual-activity-report/" target="_blank">http://www.odt.nhs.uk/statistics-and-reports/annual-activity-report/ </a></p><p>Consent/authorisation rates for 2016/17 by nation</p><p>England 63%</p><p>Wales 64%</p><p>Scotland 63%</p><p>Northern Ireland 64%</p><p> </p><p>Source: NHS Blood and Transplant</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2017 10:43:15 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

750631

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Transplant Surgery
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 6 July 2017 to Question 1450, what the total cost of the UK Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020 Strategy has been to date.
tabling member constituency	Newport West
tabling member printed	Paul Flynn
uin	4424
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The United Kingdom-wide ‘Taking Organ Transplantation to 2020 Strategy (2013)’ aims to optimise every part of the organ donation system in order to maximise the opportunities to save and transform lives, and builds on the significant progress that NHS Blood and Transplant and the National Health Service have made since the Organ Donation Task Force’s recommendations in 2008. As such, we are unable to provide the information in the form requested. The available information is shown in the table below and sets out the total amount of funding provided to NHS Blood and Transplant by the Department and the devolved administrations since the launch of the Strategy.</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><p>United Kingdom</p></td><td><p>2012/13</p></td><td><p>2013/14</p></td><td><p>2014/15</p></td><td><p>2015/16</p></td><td><p>2016/17</p></td><td><p>2017/18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>£ millions</p></td><td><p>£ millions</p></td><td><p>£ millions</p></td><td><p>£ millions</p></td><td><p>£ millions</p></td><td><p>£ millions</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Total</p></td><td><p>62.93</p></td><td><p>64.20</p></td><td><p>65.51</p></td><td><p>73.90</p></td><td><p>73.90</p></td><td><p>73.90</p></td></tr></tbody></table> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2017 10:34:33 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	545 label Biography information for Paul Flynn

750686

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Patients: Fines
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many patients were issued with fines by the NHS Business Authority because those patients (a) were not entitled to free prescriptions and (b) did not renew their exemption certificate; and how many such patients had a long-term medical condition.
tabling member constituency	Burnley
tabling member printed	Julie Cooper
uin	4268
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>Between September 2014 and April 2017 (latest figures), a total of 1,785,895 penalty charge notices (PCNs) were issued to patients declaring they were entitled to free National Health Service prescriptions but their exemption could not be validated.</p><p> </p><p>A patient is issued a penalty charge notices when the NHS Business Services Authority exemption checker does not find a valid exemption entitling that patient to free prescriptions. This includes patients that did hold a valid exemption but failed to renew.</p><p> </p><p>During the same period, a total of 90,525 PCNs were issued for unconfirmed medical exemption certificates. A new process was introduced in spring 2015 whereby someone can submit a valid application for a medical or maternity exemption certificate within 60 days from date of the penalty charge notice, the outstanding penalty charge is cancelled but the prescription charge is still recovered.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/07/2017 10:36:37 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4405 label Biography information for Julie Cooper

750761

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Care Workers: Zero Hours Contracts
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to eliminate zero hour contracts for social care workers.
tabling member constituency	Garston and Halewood
tabling member printed	Maria Eagle
uin	4413
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>The Government recognises the concerns about employers who may be breaching the rules or otherwise exploiting their position. The Government wants to make sure that everyone is paid properly and receives the employment rights to which they are entitled.</p><p>The Prime Minister commissioned Matthew Taylor to undertake a review of the rights of employees. In his review Matthew Taylor describes the United Kingdom’s flexible labour market as one of the economy’s biggest strengths and said a blanket ban on zero hours would create more “cliff edges” for employers and workers.</p><p>Social care providers are overwhelmingly independent private or charitable organisations and make their own employment decisions about their staff. Zero hours contracts allow employees to access the labour market who cannot or do not want to commit to standard, regular work.</p><p> </p><p>The Department continues to work closely with Skills for Care to support good recruitment and retention practices by social care organisations.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2017 10:41:00 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	483 label Biography information for Maria Eagle

750900

registered interest
date	11/07/2017
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Mental Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the Government plans to publish a response to the report Old Problems, New Solutions: Improving Acute Psychiatric Care for Adults in England, published by the Commission on Acute Psychiatric Care in February 2016.
tabling member constituency	Gillingham and Rainham
tabling member printed	Rehman Chishti
uin	4135
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/07/2017 answer text <p>NHS England is leading the development of a formal joint National Health Service arm’s length body response to the report ‘Old Problems, New Solutions’, planned for publication in autumn 2017. NHS England has been working very closely with partners and members of the Commission on Adult Acute Psychiatric Care throughout the development process.</p> answering member constituency Thurrock answering member printed Jackie Doyle-Price question first answered 19/07/2017 10:31:30 answering member 4065 label Biography information for Dame Jackie Doyle-Price
tabling member	3987 label Biography information for Rehman Chishti